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On This Day (February 5th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 5th ?
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1. 789 – Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, ceding land from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first state to be known as what ?
Morocco ✓
Senegal ✓
Tunisia ✓
Algeria ✓
2. 1782 – The Spanish defeat British forces and capture which island ?
Menorca ✓
Majorca ✓
Tenerife ✓
Gran Canaria ✓
3. 1788 – Robert Peel, Politician, Prime Minister and founder of the Metropolitan Police is born in which English town ?
Bury, Lancashire ✓
Tamworth, Staffordshire ✓
Macclesfield, Cheshire ✓
Kings Lynn, Norfolk ✓
4. 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public in which city ?
London, England ✓
St. Petersburg, Russia ✓
Paris, France ✓
Vienna, Austria ✓
5. 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, weighing over 97kg is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. It is known as what ?
Big Yellow ✓
Beautiful Bounty ✓
Worthy Prospect ✓
Welcome Stranger ✓
6. 1922 - Which long running magazine is published for the first time ?
Time ✓
Vogue ✓
National Geographic ✓
Reader's Digest ✓
7. 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory in London begins broadcasting what ?
Hourly Time Signals ✓
BBC Radio ✓
Military Signals ✓
Radio Pulses to Space ✓
8. 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost, and so far not recovered, by the US Air Force off the coast of which city ?
Tampa, Florida ✓
Savannah, Georgia ✓
Portland, Maine ✓
Nome, Alaska ✓
9. 1966 - The BBC opens a relay radio station on which remote island ?
South Georgia ✓
Ascension Island ✓
Tristan da Cunha ✓
Pitcairn Island ✓
10. 1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of what ?
Tyres ✓
Fuel Quality ✓
Passengers and Baggage ✓
Air Cargo Containers ✓
11. 1990 - Actor Rowan Atkinson, known for portraying Mr.Bean and Edmund Blackadder, weds Sunetra Sastry in which city ?
London ✓
New York ✓
Mumbai ✓
Brisbane ✓
12. 1996 - British supermarket chains stock the first GM food to be sold in the country, what is it ?
Tomato Puree ✓
Spinach ✓
Canned Sweetcorn ✓
Bananas ✓
13. 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid what ?
Cancer Research ✓
Holocaust Survivors ✓
Global Warming Research ✓
Famine Relief ✓
14. 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting a rebellion in which island nation ?
East Timor ✓
Comoros ✓
Haiti ✓
Grenada ✓
15. 2004 Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in which British body of water ?
The Wash ✓
Firth of Forth ✓
Bristol Channel ✓
Morecambe Bay ✓
16. 2021 - Eleven cops are arrested for rioting whilst trying to break up a demonstration by cyclists in which city?
Beijing ✓
Mexico City ✓
Amsterdam ✓
Johannesburg ✓
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